AD Celebrates National Hammock Day

A Nicaraguan hammock suspended between two maple trees in upstate New York.
Photo: Mitchell Owens

Today may be National Hammock Day, but as far as I’m concerned, that should be celebrated every 24-hour summer cycle. Suspended in a gentle breeze, weightless, with one’s eyes half closed and a glass of prosecco in hand—what could be better than that?

Friends have hung a scarlet Nicaraguan crocheted hammock between two huge maple trees at their house, and whenever my family visits them, I rush toward it, climb in, stretch out, and make it clear that I am highly reluctant to relinquish its tasseled midair comforts—no matter how much my 12-year-old daughter complains. Which is why we are planning to purchase a couple of these classic cradles for our own house. Hammocks not only make one very happy, they make one very selfish.